The new custom made truck is a 4-Guys pumper built on a Spartan chassis and cost about $554,000, which was part of last year’s city Capital Improvement budget, according to Fire Chief Ronald M. Brement. The new pumper will be housed at the Central Fire Station on Black River Boulevard.
The new apparatus carries 1,000 gallons of water and can pump up to 1,500 gallons of water per minute.
Fire officials said it will take about a month to train the city’s firefighters on the new rig and add all the final bells and whistles to make it service ready.
The new engine is nearly identical to the previous Engine-3 the department bought in 2015. That 2015 truck will now be bumped up to Engine-2, and the previous Engine-2 will now be bumped up to Engine-1.